Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : hollowone
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 08:44:39

  Re: Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
  By: hollowone to Arelor on Tue Apr 25 2023 05:50 am

 > And now they are cooking 6e. I wonder how that will go.

I was curious so I did some quick Internet browsing around.

They don't seem to be working on anything mechanically meaningful - ie. nothing
game breaking - besides including yet an ounce more of politics.

A thread in therpgsite suggests WotC is banking on One D&D (the would be 6e) to
bring a lot of customers to WotC's Games as a Service, in which customers
purchase a subscription to WotC's Virtual TableTop and have access to the
documents, rulebooks and tools needed to play, in their walled garden.

Most of the thread I was reading is speculation, but some facts that endorse
the Conspiracy Theory are that WotC has been hiring a lot of people from the
videogame world whose area of expertise is sucking players in with
subscriptions and micro-transactions, and that they have stated they intend to
start making Players pay - because as of now, it is DMs who buy all the RPG
material while the players play for free.


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